Damn. It would appear that they may very well aim to overthrow the Mexican government. They're certainly becoming armed for the concept.
The Feb. 21 attack on police headquarters in coastal Zihuatanejo, which injured four people, fit a disturbing trend of Mexico’s drug wars. Traffickers have escalated their arms race, acquiring military-grade weapons, including hand grenades, grenade launchers, armor-piercing munitions and antitank rockets with firepower far beyond the assault rifles and pistols that have dominated their arsenals.
Most of these weapons are being smuggled from Central American countries or by sea, eluding U.S. and Mexican monitors who are focused on the smuggling of semiauto- matic and conventional weapons purchased from dealers in the U.S. border states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.
The proliferation of heavier armaments points to a menacing new stage in the Mexican government’s 2-year-old war against drug organizations, which are evolving into a more militarized force prepared to take on Mexican army troops, deployed by the thousands, as well as to attack each other.
Not good, is it?
And, now... what, Mr. Obama, do you plan to do to ensure that they don't invade America later on?
Oh, wait...
Oh, shit.
Eh?
And speaking of "eh", Canada's got its own growing problems with drug gangs and related violence, too... I surely hope that the "Progressive" Left won't frustrate the efforts of the Harper Conservative government to combat this growing problem and nip it in the bud so as to prevent its becoming as much of a problem as we see Mexico has.
Metro Vancouver is struggling through a spate of shootings that local police officials suggest may be linked to the Mexican drug trade. This weekend, at least three incidents have left a woman dead and two men injured. In the latest, a man was shot in the chest in Burnaby early Sunday morning.
Gun violence has killed more than a dozen people in the area since January. Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson has called for a regional police force that would look at the entire Metro Vancouver area, similar to the police departments of Toronto and Montreal.
RCMP say guns being smuggled across the border are fuelling the violence. It's believed at least half of the guns used in the Metro Vancouver shootings have come from the United States.
What would "Progressive" Leftists suggest we do to stop the flow of guns over the border? Erect a fence? Close the border (yeah, right)? These well-meaning-but-stupid folks say on the one hand that we can't get rid of drugs, but on the other they actually believe we can get rid of guns... so the solution to the problem won't come from the "Progressive" Left, who doesn't understand that, no matter how much oppressive registration they impose on law-abiding, non-violent citizens and no matter how far they go in banning whatever weapons... they won't get rid of them, and probably can't even slow the flow of them across the border.
So I'd hope that the "Progressive" Left would give their head a shake and give the Harper Conservatives a chance to do what the Liberals never cared to do...
"We're taking steps with our national anti-drug strategy, with our legislation to attack drug crimes, with our new bill to take on organized crime," he said.
"Things that needed to be done a long time ago, that haven't been done, we've got to get those things into law and then the police will have the real tools they need to begin the long and difficult battle of combating organized crime."
Of course, even if the "Progressive" Left doesn't stand in the government's way in moving on the above-noted stuff, rest assured they'll find other ways to frustrate the government's efforts, such as tossing about the standard accusations of "racism", such as abusing the courts and the "Human Rights" Commissions to protect the bad guys from law enforcement via "defending the bad guys' civil rights", organizing "demonstrations" by young, got-no-life, bored, stoned, bizarre-looking-and-sounding young people to falsely reframe the issue as one of "race" and "hatred", if the drug gangs are to apparently have a significant "visible minority" membership, as if it matters to the "Progressive" Left what color one's skin is... Oh, and, of course, the Big Corporate Media will aid and abet the "Progressive" Left's "Palestinian"-esque soft-jihad against the war against drug gangs.
Yep; that's the way things work, folks. I know it and you know it. Unless, of course, you're one of those delusional "Progressive" Leftists who deny even that which they see happening right in bloody fecking front of themselves, day in, day out, proving to rational, sane folks that "Progressivism" is a mental disorder...
